Jonathan Harvey in St Michael's College, Tenbury Wells - between at the end of the 1940's and in the middle of 20th Century
from In Quest of Spirit: Thoughts on Music, pages 1–2:
When I was nine my parents sent me off to be a chorister at St Michael’s College, Tenbury, in the heart of the Worcestershire countryside. […] Alone in the beautiful library I spent hours taking off the shelves the various tomes of sweet-smelling old music and trying to play it on the piano, absconding from walks and more healthy-minded school activities for as long as I was undiscovered. The magic of those hours… more >>
cite as
Jonathan Harvey, In Quest of Spirit: Thoughts on Music (City of Berkeley, 1999), p. 1–2. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1546599803527 accessed: 12 December, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composersunspecified music | performed by Jonathan Harvey |
organ improvisations | performed by Jonathan Harvey |
a motet
written by Orlande de Lassus |
performed by choristers of St Michael's College Tenbury |
music for Matins and Evensong | performed by choristers of St Michael's College Tenbury |
Experience Information
Date/Time | between at the end of the 1940's and in the middle of 20th Century |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors, solitary |
Originally submitted by lcc5 on Fri, 04 Jan 2019 11:03:24 +0000
Approved on Fri, 24 Jul 2020 15:43:40 +0100